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March 18, 2018

LIKE SEVERAL of my friends, I wonder where to find engaging conversations if I don’t use Facebook. I’m looking at six of the newsfeeds that capture my attention.

Sometime in 2000, I started reading Gavin’s Blog as his musing percolated through Radio Userland alongside Karlin Lillington’s. A few days ago, Gavin wondered if it is time for him to abandon Facebook, the place where all your connections (and the connections of your connections) are easily hovered up and sold along to companies specializing in advancing special messages.

So I clicked into Gavinsblog to see if he reignited conversation there. His last blog post is eight months old and dives deep into forecasting. Gavin has refined his skills as a Master of Free Information, unfurling stories with The Story. I wonder where Gavin will share ideas if he drops off the Facebook.

March 08, 2018

I WORK WITH a wide range of creative students on three campuses of the Limerick Institute of Technology. This year, I'm taking a page out of my 1998 notebooks as we share techniques about making rich media content that shows up in less than two seconds on mobile phone screens.

March 07, 2018

IT WAS 1997 in the Arthouse of Temple Bar that I made my first circle site with 20 aspiring webmasters (webdevs were only known in places like Spin Solutions). More than 20 years later, I'm creating another iteration with a cohort of creative media students in County Tipperary.

February 22, 2018

AUTHOR DAVID GLUCKMAN visits the Clonmel campus for a lunchtime talk on Tuesday, February 27, 2018. The free event takes place in the Clonmel campus with an audience of clever creative students and local businesses.

February 19, 2018

HUNDREDS OF THIRD LEVEL students in Ireland have started a month-long step challenge by joining together in small teams to record the highest number of steps together. We will update this page throughout the month of March 2018, helping to surface some of the initiative shown by LIT sports management students who are taking part in the programme.

February 18, 2018

WE'RE TWO MONTHS AWAY from the 2018 ICT in Education Conference and have started sketching concept art in support of the event. Three separate sketches have earned more than 4000 views each after we uploaded them on Flickr for community commentary. One of the sketches will become the official logo of the 2018 annual conference.

Creative media student Adam Aranowski offers his brief interpretation of the top three images through a 30-second enhance podcast that explains what he sees in each of the images. Based on crowd affirmations, the best images were produced by Emer Hyde, Shannon Egan, and Diana Matos.

February 15, 2018

I HAVE BEEN CREATING a few shareable audio episodes while using my mobile phone and the Spreaker app. Today, I'm sharing the advantages and workflow with colleagues during a staff training session in the Limerick Institute of Technology. I'm taking colleagues into two accounts, one for Pen & Pixel and another called "Making, Creating, and Sharing".